Talk:Elaine O'Neal (politician)

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Elaine O'Neal (politician) was mentioned under "News and notes" in the Signpost on 1 August 2023.

This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Lena Geller (July 24, 2023). "Durham Officials Directed City Attorney to Try to Unmask Anonymous Wikipedia Editors". Indy Week.
Mary Helen Moore (July 26, 2023). "Durham mayor, City Council members pressed attorney to handle mysterious Wikipedia edits". The News & Observer.

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Some Herald-Sun articles just link to the main page

Just ran IAbot and noticed that three Herald-Sun refs just link to the site's main page, "The state of our city is good", "O'Neal gives state of city, crime reduction plan", and "City of Durham launches mortgage assistance program" - searching the titles on the site I was unable to find the articles and fix the links. Are the articles only available via subscription or in the print edition? Waxworker (talk) 07:36, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

IndyWeekly Wikipedia Story

Shouldn't there be something about this? https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-officials-directed-city-attorney-to-try-to-unmask-anonymous-wikipedia-editors/ 157.98.120.194 (talk) 11:05, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

great minds, just added this to the Holsey-Hyman talk page 152.3.43.41 (talk) 15:44, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that there should be something about this. The article mentioned above was included on Business North Carolina's Daily Digest that was sent out to their subscriber list. which as of 2019 had over 11,000 subscribers. Naheehsp93 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:46, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This was added, but was removed by another editor of WP:NOTNEWS, but I disagree and have undone the removal. It is under the career section. Naheehsp93 (talk) 14:01, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It was also an article in The News & Observer this morning (see [1]). -- 66.56.222.197 (talk) 14:55, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"All entries are written and scrupulously maintained by volunteers." Well, we try anyway. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:54, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This could arguably deserve a mention at List of political editing incidents on Wikipedia, but afaict per [2], there weren't many edits. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:44, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Including the recent WP-whatever that was in the news in the WP-article text BRD

Durham Officials Directed City Attorney to Try to Unmask Anonymous Wikipedia Editors from Indy Week. And it's on ANI too:[3]

It was added to this article (also Monique Holsey-Hyman and DeDreana Freeman, I'll note this discussion on those talkpages), and I removed it per WP:PROPORTION and WP:NOTNEWS [4]. There is also an essay called WP:NAVELGAZING. I was reverted here[5], so it's talkpage time.

Recent newsflash, and per linked polices, not interesting to include, even if it's exiting to us as Wikipedians. Opinions, editors? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:29, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with taking this story out for now.If it gets picked up by media outside the Raleigh-Durham area, then we should put it back in.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 15:45, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It has been picked up by AOL. Granted, it is a republish of The News & Observer article, it is still now covered by the national news.

https://www.aol.com/news/durham-mayor-city-council-members-115728208.html Naheehsp93 (talk) 15:56, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's been taken up also by the NC Observer, which is a serious, high-repute publication of statewide importance. The vast majority of the page's content is sourced to publications from the Triangle; I see no reason to exclude this particular content on that basis, particularly when multiple established reliable sources are reporting on this. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 16:05, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting here that since this a controversy involving the mayor and some city council members, one would expect most of not all coverage to be regional at best. I get the hesitancy to avoid self-absorption, but if the new standard on including content about the activities of local officials (who’s notability has been established by wider media footprint) is that it’s been covered in non-local media, then we’d probably have to delete 90% of the content about all such officials on Wikipedia.-Indy beetle (talk) 17:20, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think the NC Observer item is enough to get this over the bar and warrant its inclusion. XOR'easter (talk) 19:04, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thats “The NEWS & Observer” to you out-of-staters (N&O for short). -Indy beetle (talk) 22:02, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]